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Default Word for making a bad connection?
On Wed, 12 May 2021 14:40:03 +0100, jon wrote:

On Wed, 12 May 2021 14:30:49 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

What's the word for connecting something live and causing the connection
to make and break several times rapidly, possibly damaging the
equipment?

Intermittent.

That would do, dunno why I didn't think of that. I also like "contact bounce" as suggested by someone else.

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